Works of artistic interest based on motifs of Tavrian painting are created by the designer and illustrator Oksana Davydova. Her works are contemporary, complex, quite graphic. They strike by uncommon creative solutions and by their detail.

And these are only some of the names… The masters who use Tavrian painting, or create works from its motifs or in its style, number more than a hundred.

But a great popularity has its cautions as well: it provokes thoughtless use of the painting and an unwillingness to enter its character, to study it deeply. From this comes the threat of distorting “Tavryka” and of destroying its uniqueness — that which sets it apart among other folk paintings. So the masters of Mykolaiv have a particular task: to keep the tradition and to present it with dignity in the artistic space and beyond. A restrained colour range, a dominant maritime theme, unique protective symbolism, the character of compositional structure and the absence of a transitional stroke — these are the foundation of the painting’s recognisability.

On this page you may look more closely at the works of masters created directly by means of Tavrian painting, and also from its motifs and in its style.

We are sure that the works presented will be useful and interesting in the study of “Tavryka” and in the search for inspiration of one’s own. Learn and experiment freely in your own fields of work — but remember that for the constellation of bearers of the Mykolaiv Region, Tavrian painting is their blue-eyed pearl and the soul of the native land, where the elements meet and life is set on pause by remarkable horizons…